SoftNAS Best Practice Recommendations

Here you will find various best practice recommendations for the specific platforms, features, and storage SoftNAS manages.

AWS Specific

Best Practices specific to the Amazon Web Services

Regions and Availability Zones

EBS Instance Selection

Amazon EBS volume types

Adding an AWS gp3 disk device

AWS Outposts

Azure Specific

Best Practices specific to the Azure Cloud

Getting Started With SoftNAS on Azure

Azure Managed Disks

Linux Virtual Machines in Azure

Availability options for Azure

VMware Specific

Best Practices specific to VMware

Performance Tuning for VMware vSphere→

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VMware vSphere 7.0 Performance Best Practices→

VMware vSphere 8.0 Performance Best Practices→

High Availability

Best Practices dealing with SNAP HA, SnapReplicate, and other subjects related to ensuring high availability

AWS Regions & Availability Zones

Maximum Data Protection

Snapshots

Write Logs

Data Protection

All things dealing with protecting the data

Maximum Data Protection

Migration (Lift and Shift)

Getting the most out of Lift and Shift

Configuring Ports and Network Security Groups for Lift and Shift

Editing Lift and Shift Volume Flows

Moving from EFS to EBS using Lift and Shift

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting common issues and various tools to use

Performance Issues

Performance

Getting the most out of your SoftNAS deployment

SoftNAS Performance on AWS

Changing Monitoring Notification Frequency

VMware - Networking Tips

SnapReplicate iSCSI Volume Synchronization

Applying CHAP Authentication to iSCSI ACLs

Protocols

Dealing with CIFS/SMB, NFS, and iSCSI

CIFS/SMB specific

Samba Shares audit logging

Samba LDAP Configuration

NFS Specific

Fix to error: nfs-utils "mount wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock"

NFS Common Commands (Cheat Sheet)

iSCSI Specific

Best Practices